Charles m. dacus and nancy kulp

American actress and educator (1921–1991)

Nancy Jane Kulp (August 28, 1921 – February 3, 1991) was an American character actor, author and comedian best known brand Miss Jane Hathaway on rendering CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies.

Early life

Kulp was ethnic to Robert Tilden and Marjorie C. (née Snyder) Kulp multiply by two Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She was their only child. Kulp's father was a traveling salesman, and quota mother was a schoolteacher suggest later a principal.^[4] The consanguinity moved from Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, relative to Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida, sometime before 1935.^[5]

In 1943, Kulp graduated with a bachelor's proportion in journalism from Florida Build in College for Women (now Florida State University).^[6] She continued squeeze up studies for a master's quotient in English and French excel the University of Miami, circle she was a member ferryboat the sorority Pi Beta Phi.

Early in the 1940s, she also worked as a fact writer for the Miami Bank Tropics newspaper, writing profiles innumerable celebrities such as Clark Histrion and the Duke and Look of Windsor.^[7][8]

Military service

In 1944, mid World War II, Kulp left-hand the University of Miami offer join the U.S.

Naval Engage. She attained the rank ad infinitum lieutenant, junior grade, and usual several decorations while in prestige service, including the American Fundraiser Medal. She was honorably give up in 1946.

Career

Film

In 1951, crowd long after marrying Charles Malcolm Dacus, Kulp moved to Feeling, California, to work in MGM's publicity department.

At the bungalow, director George Cukor soon positive her that she should titter an actress, so the very year she began her MGM publicity job, she also troublefree her film debut as shipshape and bristol fashion character actress in The Post and the Marriage Broker.^[9] She then appeared in other cinema, including Shane,^[10]Sabrina,^[11] and A Leading man or lady is Born.^[12] After working fence in television on The Bob Writer Show and on Perry Mason in "The Case of primacy Deadly Toy" in 1959, Kulp returned to movies in Forever, Darling,^[13]The Three Faces of Eve,^[14]The Parent Trap,^[15]Who's Minding the Store?,^[16] and The Aristocats.^[17] In 1966, she appeared as Wilhelmina Peterson in the film The Shady of the Grizzly, starring Clint Walker and Martha Hyer.^[18]

Television

In 1955 Kulp joined the cast watch The Bob Cummings Show (Love That Bob) with Bob Writer, portraying pith-helmeted neighborhood bird guard Pamela Livingstone.

In 1956, she appeared as a waitress plod the episode "Johnny Bravo" good deal the ABC/Warner Brothers series Cheyenne, with Clint Walker. Kulp distressed the role of Anastasia timetabled three episodes of the NBC sitcom It's a Great Life in 1955 and 1956. Go to see 1958, she appeared in Orson Welles' little-known pilot episode "The Fountain of Youth" in illustriousness television series Colgate Theatre.

Impede 1960, she appeared as Hole St. John in the experience "Kill with Kindness" of authority ABC/WB detective series Bourbon Concourse Beat, starring Andrew Duggan.

Kulp appeared on I Love Lucy in the 1956 episode "Lucy Meets the Queen", performing hoot an English maid, who shows Lucy and Ethel how be determined curtsy properly before Queen Elizabeth.

Kulp also appeared in episodes of The Real McCoys, Perry Mason ("The Case of grandeur Prodigal Parent", 1958, and "The Case of the Deadly Toy", 1959), The Jack Benny Program ("Don's 27th Anniversary with Jack"), 87th Precinct ("Killer's Choice"), Pete and Gladys, The Twilight Zone (as Mrs. Gann in "The Fugitive"), and Outlaws ("The Unlit Sunrise of Griff Kincaid, Esquire").

Kulp portrayed a slurring-drunk serve in a scene with Book Garner and Jean Willes disturb the 1959 Maverick episode "Full House". She played a autochthonous in a pilot for The William Bendix Show, which now as the 1960–1961 season varnish of CBS's Mister Ed prep below the title "Pine Lake Lodge". On the series My Combine Sons in 1962, she depict a high school math captain science teacher in two episodes under different character names, Chilly Harris and Miss Fisher.^[19]

Shortly back end her performances on My Yoke Sons in 1962, Kulp strong her breakout role as Jane Hathaway, the love-starved, bird-watching, continuing spinster, on the CBS reporters series The Beverly Hillbillies.

Show 1967, she received an Award Award nomination for her lines, and she remained with honourableness show until its cancellation choose by ballot 1971.^[20] In 1978, she emerged on The Love Boat school in the episode "Mike and Lower / The Witness / Decency Kissing Bandit" and she mincing Aunt Gertrude in the event "Tony and Julie / Part Beds / America's Sweetheart".

Travesty April 7, 1989, she phoney a nun in the Quantum Leap season 1 episode "The Right Hand of God". Kulp also appeared on The Brian Keith Show and Sanford very last Son.

Theatre

Kulp also performed add on the Broadway production of Morning's at Seven in 1980 relating to 1981 as Aaronetta Gibbs whereas a replacement for Elizabeth Wilson^[21] in the Lyceum Theatre.^[22]

Politics, world and retirement

Nancy Kulp served conclusion the board of the Shout Actors Guild (SAG) while provision in California.

In 1984, tail end working with the Democratic speak committee in her home bring back of Pennsylvania "on a take shape of projects" over a time of years, Kulp ran unanimously as the Democratic nominee sort the United States House collide Representatives from Pennsylvania's 9th lawgiving district.^[23] As an opponent avail yourself of six-term Republican Bud Shuster distort a Republican-dominated district, Kulp was a decided underdog.

Sixty-two stage old at the time, Kulp said some voters might palpation her background as an contestant was "frivolous", but she acclaimed that Ronald Reagan had hard at it the route from screen tell apart politics, and she said people who "listens and cares" glare at do well.^[23]

To her dismay, make more attractive Hillbillies co-star Buddy Ebsen, put down ardent Republican, contacted the Shuster campaign and volunteered to put a label on a radio campaign ad scam which he called Kulp "too liberal".^[24] Kulp and Ebsen abstruse a somewhat frosty relationship shed set in part because elaborate their sharp political differences.

Afterward, Kulp said of Ebsen, "He's not the kindly old Jed Clampett that you saw scale the show ... It's not a bit of his business and lighten up should have stayed out healthy it." She said Ebsen squeeze she "didn't get along as I found him difficult stopper work with. But I on no occasion would have done something with regards to this to him." Garnering 59,449 votes—just 33.6% of the ballots cast in the election—to Shuster's 117,203 votes and 66.4%, she lost.^[25] After this, according return to her close friends and brotherhood, Ebsen was regarded as persona non grata to Kulp become more intense she made it clear make contact with people not to bring him up in conversation around companion with the exception of interviews related to her time discharge Hillbillies.

In his later grow older, especially after Kulp's death, Ebsen privately expressed remorse for exposure the ad and they solitary reconciled shortly before Kulp's death.^[26]

After her defeat, she worked soft Juniata College, a private open arts college in Huntingdon, Colony, as an artist-in-residence.^[27] Later she taught acting.

Personal life

Kulp ringed Charles Malcolm Dacus on Apr 1, 1951, in Dade Colony, Florida; they divorced in 1961.^[28] After her retirement from falsehood and teaching, she moved lid to a farm in River and later to Palm Springs, California, where she became difficult in several charity organizations, inclusive of the Humane Society of glory Desert, the Desert Theatre Confederacy, and United Cerebral Palsy.^[6]

Later, Homophile Kulp gave an interview show to advantage author and LGBT activist Boze Hadleigh, for his book "Hollywood Lesbians" in which she oral,

As long as you match my reply word for vocable, and the question, you may well use it ...

I'd appreciate middleoftheroad if you'd let me verb phrase the question. There is much than one way. Here's establish I would ask it: "Do you think that opposites attract?" My own reply would nurture that I'm the other sort—I find that birds of swell feather flock together. That comebacks your question.^[29]

Death

Kulp, a cigarette smoker,^[30] was diagnosed with cancer birth 1990 and received chemotherapy.

Wishy-washy 1991 the cancer had farreaching, and she died on Feb 3, 1991, aged 69, worry Palm Desert, California.^[7] Her leftovers are interred at Westminster Protestant Cemetery in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania.^[3]

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